Crytek: People want to play, but won't buy, our games

by Gaetano Prestia Featured 6 Comments 16 Votes 845 Views 01/05/2012 Back to News

Crysis series developer, Crytek, hopes to address the disheartening piracy figures attached to some of its biggest games.

That's according to the company's senior creative director, Rasmus Højengaard, who sarcastically quipped that it was "unfortunate" that developers didn't win an award for most pirated game.

"I can’t say," said Mr Højengaard when asked if the developer would do anything differently in the future to stem pirating of its games. "But yeah, obviously it’s something we’d like to address."

While "people apparently really want to play our games", proclaimed Mr Højengaard, "they just don’t wanna buy them."

Crysis 2 was the most pirated game of 2011, according to a list compiled by file sharing website, Torrent Freak.

Source: PC Gamers

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Crytek: People want to play, but won't buy, our games Comments

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maxiboy

I bought Crysis and Crysis 2.

01/05/2012

Sydney, NSW

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Tano

maxiboy said: I bought Crysis and Crysis 2.

*claps*
*taps head*

:P

01/05/2012

"Niko! Cousin!"

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Desi

Probably because Crytek likes DRM and has no respect for PC gamers.

01/05/2012

And I love starting sentences with conjunctions! >=D

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MyFragian

"people apparently really want to play our games", proclaimed Mr Højengaard, "they just don’t wanna buy them."

So he is branding everyone that plays it as a pirate?
The fact that they are still making a pc version shows that it sells quite well..

01/05/2012

NSW!!

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abujaffer

No, it's that everyone wants to see if their computer can "run Crysis"... it's like downloading a free benchmark, except it lasts a couple hours and is fully interactive. =D

01/05/2012

3D world... where everything, even flat stuff, are in 3D.